My research falls within three thematic areas: (1) the politics of state building and institutional change; (2) nationalism; and (3) institutions and economic development.
Politics of state building and institutional change
- Baltz, Matthew J. (in progress, draft available by request) “Between militarism and neoliberalism: elite conflict and state building in the United States.”
- Baltz, Matthew J. (2022) “What lies beneath the ‘tariff man’? The Trump administration’s response to China’s ‘state capitalism’.” Contemporary Politics 28, no. 3: 328-346.
- Baltz, Matthew J. (2019) “Navigating the globalization dilemma: democratic pressure and the making of US inward foreign direct investment policy in the 1970s.” Journal of Policy History, 31(1), 101-125.
- Baltz, Matthew J. (2017) “Institutionalizing neoliberalism: CFIUS and the governance of inward foreign direct investment in the United States” Review of International Political Economy, 24(5), 859-880.
Nationalism and Citizenship
- Baltz, Matthew J. (2023) “Threats and opportunities: The populist challenge to business elites in Trump’s administration.” in Business and Populism: The Odd Couple?, edited by Glenn Morgan and Magnus Feldmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 59-78.
- Baltz, Matthew J. (2021) “’Americanism not globalism will be our credo!’: An analysis of the economic nationalism(s) of Trump’s administration and an agenda for further research.” Nations and Nationalism, 27, 797-815.
- Baltz, Matthew J. (2015) “Protecting citizens in hard times: citizenship and repatriation pressures in the United States and France during the 1930s.” Theory and Society, 44(2), 101-124.
Institutions and economic development
- Baltz, Matthew J. (Under Review, draft available by request) The Military as Midwife: The US National Security State and the rise of the American rare earth sector, 1944-1970.
- Baltz, Matthew J. (In progress) “How did rare earths become “rare”? A comparative and historical analysis of the supply chain linking the United States, Japan, and China since World War II.”